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This definitive study of ice in all its complexity spans such topics as frostbite, climate change, ice on Mars and in Saturn's rings, ice cubes, the multiplicity of uses humans find for ice, and its remarkable impact on the forces that shape the world around us. 17,500 first printing.

Mariana Gosnell was born and grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a major in fine art. She worked for many years at Newsweek, where she reported on medicine and science. She is the author of a previous book, Zero Three Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane, and her articles appear in many magazines including Smithsonian and National Wildlife. She lives in New York City and summers at Lake of the Woods in Canada.